tawdriness

Example Sentences

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His story is a little rushed but we get the idea that Tim’s not a jerk, just an idealist who can’t handle the tawdriness of the 21st century.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Jerry Springer, whose chaotic talk show set a new standard for tawdriness on American TV, died yesterday.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

His writing contained a palpable sense of outrage toward injustice, ignorance and moral tawdriness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018

“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

If the color is to be white, we can have no ornament, for the shadows would make it far too conspicuous, and we should get only tawdriness.

From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John